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This changed sometime in 2014. You used to be able to use IMAP authtype 'simple', but in April 2014, Google released a rather vague blog post [1] about how they're going to deprecate something; please move to OAuth 2.0.

The Thunderbird team's bug tracker has some context [2] where they had to move quickly to add functionality to Thunderbird to support the SASL XOAUTH2 for IMAP so that Thunderbird would keep working with Gmail.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2014/04/new-security-measure...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059100

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Woah. Yea I moved off Gmail in 2013. Their broken IMAP implementation is terrible.

Even though a lot of my outgoing e-mail goes straight to spam, I'm glad I did. I hate this crap.

What did you replace Gmail with?

Just started running my own server:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-...

I also Gnus to read my email every once in a while and when I tried it last week, it complained

  Opening connection to imap.gmail.com via tls...
  Opening TLS connection to `imap.gmail.com'...
  Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 993 imap.gmail.com'...done
  Opening TLS connection to `imap.gmail.com'...done
  nnimap (gmail) open error: 'NO (ALERT) Please log in via your web browser:
  https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure)'.  Continue? (y or n)

This used to work until a few months ago. It is also possible that something is missing on my computer. My computer was stolen recently and I haven't quite had the time to get to the bottom of this and several other similar things :/

See this stackoverflow question [1] by someone having the same problem to see what's going on. Someone else wrote [2] an okay-looking script that implements this custom XOAUTH2 scheme in emacs; if you trust you can use that, or use it to write your own.

[1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/19382/

[2] https://github.com/ggervasio/gnus-gmail-oauth

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